Peoples Temple

Peoples Temple was an organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, possessed over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco. It is best known for the death of over 900 of its members on November 18, 1978 in Guyana, at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (informally called "Jonestown"), a nearby airstrip at Port Kaituma, and Georgetown.

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Jim Jones' first church
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Peoples Temple headquarters, 1859 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, 1978
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Peoples Temple members attend an anti-eviction rally at the International Hotel, San Francisco, January 1977.
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Rev. Jim Jones receives a Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian award at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, January 1977.
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Peoples Temple members included the elderly as well as youth. Hazel Dashiell, with Mark Fields at an anti-eviction rally in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1977.
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Temple building at 1366 S. Alvarado St., Los Angeles
Jonestown arrivals and population
This image is from "the Jonestown Institute" at San Diego State University.*The image is photo of the welcome sign at the entrance into Jonestown that is imaged here. The sign states: "Welcome to Jonestown>*Peoples Temple Agricultural ProjectThe site states that:*"Tape transcripts, summaries, some primary source documents, and all
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Houses in Jonestown, Guyana, 1979.
Image caption at source website, United States House of Representatives:Representative Leo Ryan of California was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest experession of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions.

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